Name
Jon Finch
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1941-03-02
Deathday
2012-12-28 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Caterham, Surrey, England
Biography
John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1941 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth (1971).
Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder, Death on the Nile (1978), and in one of his last roles, a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem (Heraclius, though unnamed in the film) in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Decades earlier, Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out because of his diabetes. The role was eventually played by John Hurt.
Known For
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- 1972 Frenzy as Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
- 1989 Unexplained Laughter as Finn
- 1970 The Horror of Frankenstein as Lt. Henry Becker
- 1978 Death on the Nile as James Ferguson
- 1971 Macbeth as Macbeth
- 1980 Breaking Glass as Woods
- 1973 The Final Programme as Jerry Cornelius
- 2004 Tomb of Terror as Bennett
- 1994 Lurking Fear as Bennett
- 1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday as Scotsman
- 1989 The Voice as Miller
- 1979 Henry IV Part 2 as King Henry IV
- 1980 Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
- 1973 The Big Screen as Self
- 1974 Diagnosis: Murder as Lomax
- 1972 Lady Caroline Lamb as William Lamb
- 1978 Richard II as Henry Bolingbroke
- 1979 Henry IV Part 1 as King Henry IV
- 1987 Make and Break as Peter Davis
- 1977 The Standard as Charbinsky
- 1976 Game of Seduction as Count Charles de Lapalmmes
- 1984 Pop Pirates as Coastguard
- 1979 La Sabina as Michael
- 1982 Doctor Faustus as Adrian Leverkühn
- 1970 The Vampire Lovers as Carl Ebhardt
- 1996 Darklands as David Keller
- 1989 La più bella del reame as Jeremy
- 1982 Giro City as O'Mally
- 1972 Polanski Meets Macbeth as Self
- 2001 The Story of 'Frenzy' as Self
- 1976 El segundo poder as Juan de Sacramonte
- 1992 Beautiful Lies as George Orwell
- 1984 Much Ado About Nothing as Don Pedro
- 1998 Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord as Derek Jarvis
- 2005 Kingdom of Heaven as Patriarch of Jerusalem
- 2014 Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth' as Self (archive footage)
- 1983 Power Game
- 1989 Streets of Yesterday
- 1996 White Men Are Cracking Up as Detective Margrave
- 1978 Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette as Self / James Ferguson
- 1984 The Bill ( 0 episode )
- 1980 The Martian Chronicles ( 1 episode ) as Christ
- 1984 Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as Count Sylvius
- 1976 The New Avengers ( 1 episode ) as Wallace
- 1969 Counterstrike ( 10 episodes ) as Simon King
- 1992 Maigret ( 1 episode )
- 1980 Hammer House of Horror ( 1 episode ) as David
- 1992 Love at First Sight ( 1 episode ) as George
- 1986 Casualty ( 1 episode ) as Graham Lester
- 1976 Curro Jiménez ( 1 episode ) as McCallaghan
- 1988 South of the Border ( 1 episode ) as Trevor
- 1981 Peter and Paul ( 2 episodes ) as Luke
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Sir Edward Mortimer
- 1994 The World of Hammer ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1991 Merlin of the Crystal Cave ( 3 episodes ) as Vortigern
- 1969 ITV Saturday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Steve
- 1988 The Play on One ( 1 episode ) as Finn
- 1978 The BBC Television Shakespeare ( 1 episode ) as Henry Bolingbroke
- 1978 The BBC Television Shakespeare ( 2 episodes ) as King Henry the Fourth
- 1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as Count Sylvius
- 1984 The Odd Job Man ( 3 episodes ) as George Griffin
- 1968 Tom Grattan's War ( 1 episode ) as Charlie
